The rumor we reported yesterday concerning Seagate acquiring an apparently money bleeding hard drive business from Samsung is in fact true. Today, both companies will officially announce the joint venture in which we’ll see Seagate taking over all hard disk technology and operations from Samsung. The deal will reportedly cost Seagate $1.375 billion — %50 cash and %50 stock — and also secure Seagate a more solid path in the SSD market moving forward as...
Floppy disks are pretty useless these days unless of course you’re looking for a relic of a paper weight or holding on to them for future value. There is a third, much more useful option however. Replace the guts with a USB drive like this guy Charles did. It’s a tad thicker than a single floppy because he had to use two disks stacked together so it everything would fit. Though he managed to get the flash drive’s activity light to light up with the...
While many of you out there may be tech-fiends, living and breathing each every new gadget that is announced/released, not all of us can be as well versed in the digital way. But more likely however, is that you have a family member or two that always turns to you for tech help. Love it or hate it, you’re the savior. So when that particular person comes to you asking about an easy way to remotely access their photos, you can now respond with a concise and easy...
Just when you thought the end had been reached, when platter-based hard drives could improve no more, Toshiba comes along and proves us all wrong. A prototype technology called “bit-patterned” media breaks up the usual continuous surface of your typical hard disk into small sections. So small in fact that the current ~540GB/sq. in. currently enjoyed in hard drive technology will pail in comparison. With bit-patterned technology, the stakes rise to 2.5TB/sq....
Lookin’ to cram the the most amount of data into the smallest space? Look no further than Hitachi with their new Z7K320 Deskstar hard drive. Measuring a scant 7mm thick, this 2.5-inch drive is the claimed “world’s first” drive to spin at 7,200RPM. Data hoarders need to look elsewhere however, as these new drives will only come in 320GB capacities. Not exactly the roomiest of mobile-based drives anymore. Next up on the chopping block —...
